
by S.Otaivites
What if your greatest enemy has already read the last page of your story — and still believes you have to lose? The Chronomantian is not a villain. He is a verdict. Armed with the ability to see every possible future, he has crossed time itself with one mission: to end the ancient Etherean bloodlines before humanity's obsession with immortality destroys what little remains of the timeline. He is not cruel. He is not wrong. That is what makes him the most dangerous thing alive. Arvist hears what the future cannot see. The silver-haired orphan has spent his life as an outcast — every accidental touch floods him with someone else's buried past, their grief, their wounds, their secrets. His dying mentor called him chosen. The ancient Kaljayan Codex contains seven riddles no one has ever fully answered, and names him the only one who can. He calls himself nobody. Between them lies the only battlefield that hasn't been decided — because it hasn't been written yet. And Arvist cannot face it alone. What stands between a predetermined future and the ones who refuse it is not power, prophecy, or fate. It is five — four who were born into this fight, and one who was never meant to feel anything at all — choosing to carry it together. AGALIN brings together Eastern mythology and Western science fiction, philosophical time mechanics and found-family heart, in a world where immortality is debt, magic is self-confrontation, and the most powerful state in existence cannot be taken — only chosen. For readers drawn to the philosophical scale of The Three-Body Problem and the found-family heart of Avatar: The Last Airbender — with the quiet devastation of Steins;Gate underneath. The past is his weapon. The future is its fortress. The present is their battlefield. Updates every Tuesday and Saturday.
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